Translations Used vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Telling Tales on the Middle Ground 8
Chapter 2: Explaining the Barbarians 32
Chapter 3: Ethnography and Empire 59
Chapter 4: Enduring Fictions? 89
Notes 119
References 146
General Index 164
Index of Main Passages Discussed 168
Greg Woolf is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul (1998), as well as the co-editor of Literacy and Power in the Ancient World (1994), and Rome the Cosmopolis (2003). In addition, Professor Woolf is editor of the Journal of Roman Studies and has written numerous articles on Roman history.
"A work of fundamental importance for students of ancientethnography. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries." (Choice,1 November 2011) "By contrast, Woolf has rendered the topic in crisp and elegantprose. This reviewer suspects that, like good ancient ethnography,Woolf's contribution will very soon take on a life of its own".(Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 25 July 2011)
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